{"id":5828,"date":"2010-10-30T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T01:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2010-11-01T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:08:51","slug":"christians-respond-to-suffering-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/10\/30\/christians-respond-to-suffering-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians respond to suffering #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2026 Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?…\u201d Job 2:10<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Mr Paul Cavanough (Director of Ministry, Anglican Diocese of Tasmania) and Mr Greg Foot share their thoughts on the questions of Why is there suffering?<\/strong> And, if there is a God who is supposed to be loving and all-powerful, then why does He allow suffering?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0After decades of answering this question in schools ministry I got down to, \u201cGod knows these things happen and they make him sad and angry. He has directed his Christian people and all men and women of good will to bring relief, care, justice and love into disastrous situations. The Church is God\u2019s love in action. That\u2019s God\u2019s plan of action for today but he also has a day planned when all the grief and injustice will come to an end forever.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Summary: God knows \u2013 He acts through his people \u2013 It won\u2019t go on forever.<\/p>\n

\u00a0– Mr Paul Cavanough<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suffering isn\u2019t necessarily pointless just because it appears to be. Why should there not be a purpose behind all suffering from God\u2019s eye view that we cannot see? (Genesis 45:1-8, John 9:1-12)<\/p>\n

The fact that there is suffering leads us to think about why we see some things as \u2018good\u2019 and others as \u2018evil \u2013 an extra-natural moral standard. Atheism cannot give us many answers to this, but Christianity can give us plenty (Genesis 3).<\/p>\n

God knows all about suffering \u2013 His Son was crucified.<\/p>\n

– Mr Greg Foot<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0See also Answering the problem of suffering <\/a>and Christians respond to suffering #1<\/a> <\/strong>and Christians responding\u00a0 suffering #2<\/a> and Christians respond to suffering #3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2026 Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?…\u201d Job 2:10 \u00a0Mr Paul Cavanough (Director of Ministry, Anglican Diocese of Tasmania) and Mr Greg Foot share their thoughts on the questions of Why is there … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}